July 2016 - Trivia Questions and Answers - TriviaQA

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

It’s a glossy black bird, or to toot your own horn

Answer: a crow

Early America Trivia

In June 1579 this British captain sailed into a harbor on the West Coast; San Franciscans say it was their bay

Answer: (Sir Francis) Drake

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

Something done on a whim may be done on this songbird of the family alaudidae

Answer: a lark

The Comics Trivia

From 1913-45 Arthur “Pop” Momand drew a comic strip called “Keeping Up With” them

Answer: The Joneses

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a pink disc.) It’s the general two-word term for a trap shooting target–live ones went out in the early 1900s

Answer: a clay pigeon

The Comics Trivia

Jerome Siegel & Joe Shuster created this superhero when they were teenagers

Answer: Superman

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

In myth, this real bird was believed to have access to the waters of creation, the source of all fertility

Answer: the stork

The Comics Trivia

This expression for newspaper sensationalism came from “The Yellow Kid” which ran in the N.Y. World

Answer: Yellow Journalism

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

The name of this bird seen here can also mean an unscrupulous person who preys greedily

Answer: a vulture

The Comics Trivia

The Dale Messick strip about this red-haired reporter came with cut-out paper doll outfits for her

Answer: “Brenda Starr”

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

The name of this game bird is also a verb that means “to shrink with fear”

Answer: quail

The Comics Trivia

A 1960 No. 1 hit song was based on this V.T. Hamlin cave man strip

Answer: “Alley Oop”

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

The house variety of this common songbird was introduced to North America in the 1850s

Answer: sparrow

"h" On The Map Trivia

This section of San Francisco was a hotbed of the hippie movement in the late 1960s

Answer: Haight-Ashbury

The Bird Is The Word Trivia

A Beatles tune talks about this bird seen here singin’ in the dead of night

Answer: blackbird